How do you establish a culture of innovation where everyone at every organizational level is looking past problem solving to innovating solutions? Your company needs proven tools and techniques for looking at internal and external products, services, processes and projects; and methodology that yields the highest return on invested time and money. That’s where The Innovation Tools Memory JoggerTM (ITMJ) comes in.

The ITMJ is a practical, hands-on pocket-guide to aid your teams, whether they’re tasked with developing new innovations from scratch or just improving existing processes, products or services. Innovation Process is introduced followed by detailed instructions and examples for 22 innovation tools, which can be used in any sequence or repetitively, as applicable to their situation. Each tool is coded by difficulty and by the innovation type it is best suited for (improvement, reinvention, etc.).

With The Innovation Tools Memory Jogger your organization can:

Take innovation out of the ivory tower and put these tools into the hands of everyone in the organization:
- make all parts of your organization innovative
- get creativity adopted in the organization as standard practice

Apply innovation to any change in the organization (internal or external)
- innovation is not just for external customers and markets

Position every customer and supplier, whether internal or external, as partners in innovating solutions

Understand what’s really needed and innovate more creative and complete solutions, versus just solving problems (and remaining reactive)

Keep your innovation process future oriented and yet grounded in executable deliverables

Shift from innovation and then adoption, to innovation with adoption happening simultaneously
- solutions are then designed with adoption factors in place

Mitigate resistance by considering adoption early and often in the process

Develop innovation leaders from its project managers
- project management is how innovation is executed effectively and efficiently in an organization

Make innovation a fundamental part of your strategic plan - turning intention into reality

Target Audience:
innovation team leaders
innovation team members
project managers, project teams
business analysts
technology analysts
anyone involved in defining what changes are needed
- creating solutions for internal or external purposes
- re-engineering
- invention projects in any organization

Author: Paula Martin

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